Diary

2012/08/27

Birdland , Music Exploration Company

Birdland / Weather Report
"Birdland" is a jazz-fusion instrumental composition written by keyboardist Joe Zawinul, of Weather Report. The song made its first debut on Weather Report's 7th studio album, Heavy Weather, in 1977 shortly after the addition of virtuoso bassist, Jaco Pastorius. In previous years, the Weather Report had received a moderate amount of commercial success and achievement, however after the release of Heavy Weather, with Birdland at the helm of the album, the band gained an unearthly amount of media success. Birdland gained a number of awards, as well as a few top rankings on the Billboard 200 Music Chart. Briskly after the fusion piece reached the top of the charts, it became known as a jazz standard, ( from Wikipedia )
I think the theme song played faithfully to the original, however, wanted to free improvisation.

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A weekend keyboard/piano player living in Takasaki, Gunma, Japan. Born in Saitama, in 1957, and started classical piano and became intersted in Jazz in my high school days. I joined jazz band and started jazz activites at 19. Winner of the " Jazz Session on Youtube" Piano part on Feb, 2010 高崎在住の週末鍵盤弾き 1957年埼玉県生まれ。大学でジャズ研究会に所属。以後Jazzにどっぷり30年以上。ジャズピアノは2006年より福田重男氏に師事。 2010年2月 YouTube動画コンテスト「Jazz Session on YouTube」でピアノ部門優秀賞を受賞。週末は前橋高崎で仲間とジャズのセッション、fusion bandのkeyboard、ピアノ即興ソロと雑食中 モットーは仕事に趣味を持ち込まず 趣味に仕事を持ち込まない どちらも本気モード。